Dalai Lama

Chronology of Coverage

Jul. 16, 2015

Nicholas Kristof Op-Ed column asserts China is insisting on choosing next Dalai Lama as means of controlling Tibet; says Dalai Lama has delivered mischevious response in suggesting that perhaps Beijing should consider next lives of its own leaders if it is so interested in reincarnation; notes Dalai Lama's surprising admiration of Pres Xi Jinping and suggests he extend invitation for Dalai Lama to visit China; offers Dalai Lama's answers to reader questions. MORE

May. 29, 2015

Mar. 12, 2015

Chinese Communist Party leaders, during annual gathering in Beijing, react angrily to comments made by the exiled Dalai Lama hinting that he might end his spiritual lineage and not reincarnate; move would upset their plans to announce a putative successor who would support China's policies in Tibet. MORE

Feb. 7, 2015

Pres Obama speaks at National Prayer Breakfast in Beijing and offends India by mentioning acts of religious intolerance; offends China by warmly greeting Dalai Lama. MORE

Dec. 18, 2014

Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, says in BBC interview that he would rather have no successor than be replaced by inadequate spiritual leader; China has said that Dalai Lama tradition must continue and that it must approve successor. MORE

Dec. 13, 2014

Pope Francis reportedly refuses to meet with Dalai Lama, who is in Rome for gathering of Nobel Peace Prize laureates; pope's action seems to be further success for China in its efforts to isolate the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, but Vatican claims Pope Francis will not meet with any of the Nobel laureates and says Dalai Lama is held in high esteem. MORE

Sep. 6, 2014

Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama is denied visa by South African government to attend Nobel peace conference in Cape Town. MORE

May. 10, 2014

Dalai Lama calls for outside inquiry into self-immolations of more than 130 Tibetans in anti-China demonstrations over the past five years; remarks, made during visit to Norway, suggest that he has softened his stance against suicidal form of protest. MORE

May. 8, 2014

Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual leader in exile, begins visit to Norway to commemorate the Nobel Peace Prize he received there 25 years earlier; trip is being overshadowed, however, by an uproar over Norwegian government’s refusal to meet with him in deference to an increasingly assertive China, which considers the Dalai Lama an unrepentant separatist. MORE

Apr. 18, 2014

Arthur C Brooks Op-Ed article outlines lessons Americans can learn from the Dalai Lama about free enterprise and capitalism; contends the country needs practical policies based on moral empathy, not the dubious 'fair share' class-baiting of politicians. MORE

Feb. 22, 2014

Chinese government warns that meeting between Pres Obama and Dalai Lama will severely damage relations between Washington and Beijing; in contrast to previous meetings, Obama administration seems unruffled by diplomatic repercussions of visit by the Tibetan spiritual leader. MORE

Nov. 3, 2013

Chinese government cracks down on media and communications in Tibet, hoping to fully eradicate news of exiled spiritual leader Dalai Lama. MORE

Oct. 15, 2013

British government takes steps toward reconciliation with China after months of frosty relations, promising to relax visa rules for Chinese businesspeople and some tourists; also says it has no plans for more high-profile meetings with the Dalai Lama, exiled Tibetan spiritual leader. MORE

Oct. 12, 2013

Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, forms unique partnership with Emory University to merge the hard science of the laboratory with the soft science of the meditative mind; project involves small band of Tibetan monks and team of translators working to bring Western science to monastic education system in India, while Western scholars ponder meditation and consciousness. MORE

Sep. 8, 2013

Op-Ed article by author Pico Iyer reflects on the value suffering can have; describes visiting a Japanese village that had been laid to waste by the earthquake and tsunami of 2011 with the Dalai Lama, and arriving at the conclusion that the only thing worse than assuming one can get the better of suffering is imagining one can do nothing in its wake. MORE

Jun. 21, 2012

Mar. 25, 2012

China’s state-run news media is continuing online busts of propaganda intended to smear the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader; latest commentary seeks to equate the Dalai Lama, a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, with the Nazis and their genocidal war on European Jews. MORE

Feb. 19, 2012

China’s efforts to turn the Dalai Lama’s hometown Hong'Ai into a tourist attraction highlight the contradictory attitude toward Tibet’s spiritual leader, whom the government has derided as a separatist. MORE

Oct. 20, 2011

Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, and Lobsang Sangay, prime minister of government-in-exile, lead prayers for nine Tibetans who have immolated themselves in protest of China's Tibet policies. MORE

With each passing year, fear grows that any return or visit to Tibet by the Dalai Lama is less likely. Beijing exercises tight control over Tibet and has little incentive to negotiate with the exiled religious leader.

The last place one expects to find His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, is at a glitzy Tucson, Ariz., golfing resort called the Sheraton El Conquistador. He had come to this unlikely corner of the world to give a series of interpretive readings from "A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life" by Shantideva, an eighth-century Buddhist saint.

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